ACT II.

SCENE I.-An open Place adjoining Capulet's

C

Garden.

Enter ROMEO.

Romeo.

AN I go forward, when my heart is here >
Turn back, dull earth, and find thy

centre out.

[He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it.

Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO.

Ben. Romeo! my cousin Romeo!

Mer. He is wise: And, on my life, hath stolen him home to bed. Ben. He ran this way, and leapt this orchard wall:

Call, good Mercutio.

Mer.

Nay, I'll conjure too.― Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover! Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh, Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied. Cry but-Ah me! pronounce but love and dove Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, One nick-name for her purblind son and heir, Young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so trim, When king Cophetua loved the beggar-maid.He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not; The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.— I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes, By her high forehead, and her scarlet lip,

By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh,

And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
That in thy likeness thou appear to us.

Ben. An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him. Mer. This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him

To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle

Of some strange nature, letting it there stand
Till she had laid it, and conjured it down;
That were some spite: my invocation

Is fair and honest, and, in his mistress' name,
I conjure only but to raise up him.

Ben. Come, he hath hid himself among these
trees,

To be consorted with the humorous night :
Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.

Mer. If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. Now will he sit under a medlar-tree,

And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit,
As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.-
Romeo, good night :-Ill to my truckle-bed;
This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep :
Come, shall we go?

Ben.

Go, then; for 'tis in vain

To seek him here, that means not to be found.

[Exeunt.

SCENE II. Capulet's Garden.

Enter ROMEO.

Rom. He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.

[JULIET appears above, at a window. But, soft! what light through yon window

breaks!

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;

Her vestal livery is but sick and green,

And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.-
It is my lady: O, it is my love :

O, that she knew she were!—

She speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that?

Her eye discourses, I will answer it.-
I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks :
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those

stars,

As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing and think it were not

night.

See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!

Jul.

Rom.

Ah me!

She speaks :

O speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head,
As is a winged messenger of heaven

Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals, that fall back to gaze on him,
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds,
And sails upon the bosom of the air.

Jul. O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou
Romeo?

Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

Rom, [aside.] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?

Jul. 'Tis but thy name that is mine enemy ;—
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part

Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes,
Without that title :-Romeo, doff that name;
And for thy name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.

Rom.

I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

Jul. What man art thou, that, thus bescreen'd in night,

Sɔ stumblest on my counsel ?

Rom.

By a name

I know not how to tell thee who I am;
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
Because it is an enemy to thee;

Had I written I would tear the word.

Jul. My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words

Of thy tongue's uttering, yet I know the sound; Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?

Rom. Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike. Jul. How cam'st thou hither, tell me? and wherefore?

The orchard walls are high, and hard to climb;

And the place death, considering who thou art, If any of my kinsmen find thee here.

Rom. With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;

For stony limits cannot hold love out :

And what love can do, that dares love attempt; Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.

Jul. If they do see thee, they will murder thee. Rom. Alack! there lies more peril in thine eye, Than twenty of their swords; look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.

Jul. I would not for the world they saw thee

here.

Rom. I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes;

And, but thou love me, let them find me here : My life were better ended by their hate,

Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.

Jul. By whose direction found'st thou out this place?

Rom. By love that first did prompt me to inquire ;

He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes.
I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far

As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,
I would adventure for such merchandise.

Jul. Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face;

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek,
For that which thou hast heard me speak to-

night.

What I have spoke.

Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain, deny
But farewell compliment!
Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say-Ay ;
And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st,
Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries,